Only Willis, Cabrera, and Brian Moehler are the returnees for this 2006 season of suck-sess for the Marlins.

Considering the quality of their top pitcher's performance during the World Baseball Classic and the team's payroll, it might be difficult for the Marlins to win 4 out of 7 against the Lancaster Jethawks or Albuquerque Dukes, much less contend for an appearance in the World Series.

This year,no way.However,these guys know what they are doing..in a few years,they will make noise.They have done this before.It worked then.Give them time.It will work again.

They were an above .500 team last season, but for some reason they decided it would be wise to get rid of most of their promising players. They still have possibly their biggest stars in Dontrelle Willis and Miguel Cabrera, but they let talented stars like Josh Beckett, Carlos Delgado, Mike Lowell, Luis Castillo, and Juan Pierre go without getting much in return in terms of proven Major League talent. Their average age is only 25 years old at this point, and if injuries occur, they could get even younger. They are a team that is destined to lose a lot of games this year. Maybe they will continue their trend of dumping promising players and playing poorly for several years, while building up a team for a World Championship every 7 years.

Rags to riches to riches to rags again...may not even exist in a few years, and once again have gutted their decent team for prospects..if they hold on to these prospects, they might be good again some years down the road, but aside from Willis, Cabrera, and maybe 1 or 2 others, they don't have much at the major league level, and it will, barring a miracle, be a bleak and awful club in Florida, this is, on paper, arguably the worst team in the game as presently constituted.